Rich Hagberg

I'm a consulting psychologist and executive leadership coach who's spent 45 years working with over 500 companies globally, including 30 years in Silicon Valley. Since 2009, I've focused on helping startup founders and their teams scale, while continuing work with larger corporations.

I started seven companies myself, so I know firsthand what it takes to build something from nothing. My book, Founders Keepers: Why Founders Are Built to Fail and What It Takes to Succeed, distills what I've learned from research on 122 founders and three decades of hands-on coaching.

Happy to help with founder leadership and building high-performing teams, and navigating the scaling challenges most founders miss.

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Here are some suggested questions you can ask:

1. What's the single biggest blind spot most founders have about themselves, and how do I know if I have it?

2. You've studied what separates successful founders from unsuccessful ones—what's the one thing the winners all do that the others don't?

3. I'm a visionary who's terrible at execution. How do I build a team that actually gets things done without losing control?

4. How do I know when it's time to step aside as CEO, and how do I do it without feeling like l'm abandoning my company?

5. What's the most common mistake founders make when their company starts to scale?

6. How do I stop being the bottleneck-where everything waits for my decision?

7. You've worked with hundreds of founders. What's the leadership behavior that costs them the most?

8. What does it actually take for a founder to grow into the leader their company needs them to become?